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Kazuhiro Takanabe

Kazuhiro Takanabe

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Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
38542
World Ranking
5419
National Ranking
330

Overview

Kazuhiro Takanabe is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on energy, engineering, and materials science, with significant contributions in related subfields such as renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, catalysis, and electrochemistry.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques
  • Catalytic processes in materials science
  • Catalysis and oxidation reactions
  • Electrochemical analysis and applications
  • Fuel cells and related materials
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Takanabe has contributed to multiple recent publications, demonstrating active research in electrocatalysis and photocatalysis. Selected papers include:

  • "Recent advances in understanding oxygen evolution reaction mechanisms over iridium oxide," 2021, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • "Role of Oxidized Mo Species on the Active Surface of Ni-Mo Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution under Alkaline Conditions," 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • "The 2022 solar fuels roadmap," 2022, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
  • "A hygroscopic nano-membrane coating achieves efficient vapor-fed photocatalytic water splitting," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Microkinetic assessment of electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction over iridium oxide in unbuffered conditions," 2020, Journal of Catalysis

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Catalysis, ChemSusChem, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Takanabe often collaborates with colleagues including Keisuke Obata, Fuminao Kishimoto, Tatsuya Shinagawa, Takeshi Nishimoto, and Tomohiro Higashi, reflecting a network of partnerships supporting advances in catalysis and energy research.

Best Publications

  • A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light

    Xinchen Wang;Kazuhiko Maeda;Arne Thomas;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Insight on Tafel slopes from a microkinetic analysis of aqueous electrocatalysis for energy conversion.

    Tatsuya Shinagawa;Angel T. Garcia-Esparza;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Polymer semiconductors for artificial photosynthesis: hydrogen evolution by mesoporous graphitic carbon nitride with visible light.

    Xinchen Wang;Kazuhiko Maeda;Xiufang Chen;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Synthesis of a carbon nitride structure for visible-light catalysis by copolymerization

    Jinshui Zhang;Xiufang Chen;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Accelerating materials development for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production: Standards for methods, definitions, and reporting protocols

    Zhebo Chen;Thomas F. Jaramillo;Todd G. Deutsch;Alan Kleiman-Shwarsctein

  • Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Quantitative Approaches toward Photocatalyst by Design

    Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Chemisorption of CO and mechanism of CO oxidation on supported platinum nanoclusters.

    Ayman D. Allian;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kyle L. Fujdala;Xianghong Hao

  • A highly selective copper-indium bimetallic electrocatalyst for the electrochemical reduction of aqueous CO2 to CO.

    Shahid Rasul;Dalaver H. Anjum;Abdesslem Jedidi;Yury Minenkov

  • Titania-supported cobalt and nickel bimetallic catalysts for carbon dioxide reforming of methane

    Kazuhiro Takanabe;Katsutoshi Nagaoka;Kentaro Nariai;Ken Ichi Aika

  • Cu–Sn Bimetallic Catalyst for Selective Aqueous Electroreduction of CO2 to CO

    Saad Sarfraz;Angel T. Garcia-Esparza;Abdesslem Jedidi;Luigi Cavallo

  • Ordered Mesoporous SBA-15 Type Graphitic Carbon Nitride: A Semiconductor Host Structure for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with Visible Light

    Xiufang Chen;Young-Si Jun;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kazuhiko Maeda

  • Vertically aligned Ta3N5 nanorod arrays for solar-driven photoelectrochemical water splitting.

    Yanbo Li;Tsuyoshi Takata;Dongkyu Cha;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution on dye-sensitized mesoporous carbon nitride photocatalyst with magnesium phthalocyanine

    Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kumiko Kamata;Xinchen Wang;Markus Antonietti

  • Harvesting Solar Light with Crystalline Carbon Nitrides for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

    Manas Kumar Bhunia;Kazuo Yamauchi;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Insights on Measuring and Reporting Heterogeneous Photocatalysis: Efficiency Definitions and Setup Examples

    Muhammad Qureshi;Kazuhiro Takanabe

  • Cobalt phosphate-modified barium-doped tantalum nitride nanorod photoanode with 1.5% solar energy conversion efficiency

    Yanbo Li;Li Zhang;Almudena Torres-Pardo;Jose M. González-Calbet

  • Sustainable hydrogen from bio-oil - Steam reforming of acetic acid as a model oxygenate

    Kazuhiro Takanabe;Ken-ichi Aika;Kulathuiyer Seshan;Leon Lefferts

  • Photocatalytic Water-Splitting Reaction from Catalytic and Kinetic Perspectives

    Takashi Hisatomi;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kazunari Domen

  • Simultaneous Reduction of CO2 and Splitting of H2O by a Single Immobilized Cobalt Phthalocyanine Electrocatalyst

    Natalia Sanchez Morlanes;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Valentin Rodionov

  • Role and Function of Noble-Metal/Cr-Layer Core/Shell Structure Cocatalysts for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Studied by Model Electrodes

    Masaaki Yoshida;Kazuhiro Takanabe;Kazuhiko Maeda;Kazuhiko Maeda;Akio Ishikawa

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics 144, 134702 (2016) SupInfo

    Sheikha Lardhi;Dalal Noureldine;Moussab Harb;Ahmed Ziani

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazunari Domen
Kazunari Domen University of Tokyo
Jun Kubota
Jun Kubota Fukuoka University
Ken-ichi Aika
Ken-ichi Aika Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dalaver H. Anjum
Dalaver H. Anjum Khalifa University
Luigi Cavallo
Luigi Cavallo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jean-Marie Basset
Jean-Marie Basset King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Kazuhiko Maeda
Kazuhiko Maeda Institute of Science Tokyo
Dongkyu Cha
Dongkyu Cha King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Leonardus Lefferts
Leonardus Lefferts University of Twente
Thomas F. Jaramillo
Thomas F. Jaramillo Stanford University

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